Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-15
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
ONE of a battery of eight boilers ex
ploded at the Hubbard iron mill, Hubbard
| o.. the other morning, wrecking the boiler
house and terribly scalding Fireman w
Siefert. who was buried under the debris.
| He was extricated with difficulty and re-
moved to his home HIS condition Is crit
| icaL
THE cases against the alleged Missouri
Pacific train wreckers, Geers, Leary and
Llovd were dismissed at Wyandotte, Kan.
on the 9Th.
OF. GIBBS dealer in seeds, Chicago, has
made an assignment. with $4,000 liabili-
ties His assets were said to be ample.
CHARLES j. TAYLOR, United States Min
lister to Liberia, and who recently returned
to this country, denies the truth OF the pu D.
lished report that he was recalled, pending
the investigation of charges of some sort
against him at the State Department.
THE Buckeye Touring mill OF NJ. w. An
derson at Portsmouth, o.. burned the other
night A falling wall crushed NJ. w. An
derson, the owner, and fireman named
William Simpson. Both were killed. Three
other men were dangerously injured. The
mill was valued at 600
UNITED STATES MARSHAL DYER on tbe7th
seized the office of the President of the
Mormon Church at Salt Lake City. The
newspaper organ Of the Church printed
very bitter protest against this action.
ONE man was killed and three injured by
a collision between freight engine and
part Of its train near Port Hudson, Mich,
the other night.
Ara meeting of the directors at Dubuque,
Iowa, on the 7th, the Minnesota & North
western railway was sold and transferred
to the Chicago, ST. Paul & Kansas City,
and the whole Stickney system hereafter
will he called bV the latter title.
THE Franz and Seller breweries at Sioux
City, Iowa, have closed permanently, re-
garding 1t as hopeless to longer hold out,
in view OF the recent decision of the United
States Supreme Court
THE sheriff of Lake County, o., on the
9TH asked the Governor tor militia to quell
a threatened riot among the ore handlers
at Falrport, that county, and one hundred
men Of the Fifth regiment, Cleveland, were
ordered to hold themselves in readiness to
move if necessary.
The extensive manufacture of ''moon-
shine" wire in Judge Treats district, owing
TO his decision at st. Louis adverse to the
monopoly, is making it ruinous for other
manufacturers to pay the royalty to Wash
burn & Moen, and a revolt is threatened.
THE California State Board of Trade pro-
poses to prepare a table OF wages paid in
the State TO induce immigration Of laborers
from the East.
A FREIGHT train on the Northern Pacific
was wrecked near Kimberley, Mimi, re-
Gently, three of the tralnmen being killed.
THE Rock Island railroad has decided to
put on fast trains between Chicago and
Council Bluffs making the distance east
or west In sixteen hours. Departing time
at Chicago will be z 30 p. m, and at Coun-
Gil Bluffs four p. m.
THE jury in the Nathan Rain sbarger muir
der trial at Marshalltown, Iowa, broughtln
a verdict of guilty OF murder in the hrst
degree, and fixed the punishment at i'm
prisonment for life.
PATRICK c. HULL, aged eighty-two, of
Oneida, Carroll County. O., was instantly
killed and little son of General Counsel
of the Cincinnati Southern rail-
road, residing at Cincinnati, probably
fatally injured while attempting to cross
the Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad at
o., recently. The horse was
killed and tho buggy demolished.
Two small boys broke through the ice
at Lake View, ILL.,, recently and were
drowned.
JAMES MULLEN, late candidate for Gov
ernor of New Mexico, was fatally shot by
the accidental discharge of revolver at
Silver City, N. NJ, the other day.
THE first act OF retaliation OF discipline
against the rebellious Knights of Labor
by Mr.. Powderly was the suspension on
the Sth of local assemblies Nos. 1907 and
23OS, of Chicago. The first named as
sembly was the first to secede from the
Knights and throw its influence in favor of
the rebels.
THE complications in the Cherokee Ma
ton, owing to the deadlock in the Senate,
were somewhat revolutionarily solved by
the Downing party assuming control and
recognizing Mayes as Chief. Both parties
in the lower house agreed to this solution
and no trouble was expected.
TIN box containing nitro glycerine was
sent to the United States Marshal of Kan
sas, Colonel w. Z. Jones, at Topeka, on the
Sth. Both the Marshal and Ex-Governor
Click attempted to open the box, fortunate
ly without success, when a suggestion was
made that it might be an Internal machine,
which proved to be the case when the
engineer OF the Government building cauti-
ously opened it. No clew existed as to who
was the author of the diabolism.